topic: REVOLT medium: video PenTales co-founder Saskia Miller chats with Mexican writer (and PenTales Damascus organizer) Diego Gomez-Pickering about living in Syria during pretty turbulent times.

By PenTales Pundit Elise Nardin, Zurich, Switzerland With the PenTales Life Lessons Project we want to give 60+ years old and seniors a voice on the Web 2.0 (check out the call for stories here).  I interviewed my grandad a couple of months ago, and within an hour I learned […]

By PenTales Pundit Elise Nardin, Zurich, Switzerland Seniors trying to figure out how PhotoBooth works Check out these hilarious videos of this funny old couple discovering PhotoBooth! It makes me both laugh AND marvel at how much change their generation has lived through. I remember explaining to my grandad how […]

By PenTales Pundit Elise Nardin Caption: “The Harvest”, featuring, among others, my great grandad Louis, my mother Martine and my uncle Patrick, 1959, Switzerland. This project all started with this old picture. I found it in a photo album at my grandparents’ place while visiting them a few years back. […]

Protesters continue to gather in NYC to decry an expanding set of economic injustices, but we can’t all set up camp outside the site of our personal grievances. From the vending machine that won’t relinquish your candy to international policy, we want to understand how you feel about things no […]

Farley Katz is from Texas originally but has been living in NYC since 2007. His cartoons appear in The New Yorker magazine. He also writes and draws the web cartoon Kids Are Dumb This is his submission to PenTales Love and Heartbreak. PenTales: What are the ingredients of a good […]

PenTales: You’re the Mexico City Instigator. Tell us a 100-word story to help us get to know Mexico City. Pablo: In the suburbs of Mexico City, there is a place called Chalco Solidaridad. It is an urban development built after the 1985 earthquakes that tore down several parts of the […]

Adolfo Doring is a New York-based filmmaker, photographer, and artist. His debut feature film “Metro” premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. Currently, he is working on a photography book titled Nomenclature and the release of his narrative feature, Thinly Veiled. This is his take on Love and Heartbreak for PenTales. […]

Stephanie Yee contributed an illustration to our open call for stories on Love and Heartbreak. Check out more of her work here. PenTales: What are the ingredients of a good illustration? Stephanie: I have no idea. And by that I mean that my favorite drawings are usually the ones that […]